Thursday, February 17, 2011

An economics professor once told me, circa 1974, that this was the mathematical symbol denoting an anal sphincter, or, in the vernacular, "asshole." I later learned he had stolen the idea from a hand-drawn illustration in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, and that Vonnegut was fond of using the symbol as a tag graphic after his signature when he autographed books.

I bring that up because the ATF street agents are both reacting to Senator Grassley's letter to Eric Holder of yesterday and reporting reaction to it among the muckety-mucks. For example, here is one whistleblower in an email to me:

I love that he (Grassley) is coming after Newell and Gillette. ATF had plenty of warning that these guys are dangerous decision makers and did nothing. No one at ATF is surprised that this got so out of hand under their inept guidance. . .

The word is coming out that Melson is calling Grassley an asshole and telling people that Grassley is wrong and has no right to be asking ATF these questions. I guess he doesn’t believe in our government's system of checks and balances.

Kurt Vonnegut.

Kenneth Melson. Family resemblance? We report, you decide.

Speaking of anal sphincters, there is a whole lot of discussion by the street agents of the breed of ATF senior executive service sphincters over on CleanUpATF.org here.

Sounds like it is Melson himself who needs a proctologist and a blue rubber glove. He'll likely get that, at the upcoming oversight hearings. KY Jelly will be optional, I think.

Melson DOESN'T care. He understands that NOBODY in the Obama Administration will do ANYTHING to him for disparaging a Republican Senator. Nor for lying under oath, if it ever comes to that. Why does ANYONE think that this Administration will actually bother to honor ANY subpoenas from Congress. If they IGNORE those subpoenas, what is Congress going to do? ARREST them? With whom? The Federal pigs work for The One and his toadies. If they won't respect Federal Court orders even though they theoretically are officers of the Legal System, why would ANYONE think they will pay any attention to Congress instead of just bowing and scraping before their Masters and then doing WHATEVER they are told? Just like the fine German police under the Nazis.

Mr. Melson also knows that NOBODY in the citizenry, you know, the people who have the power, will do anything either. Doing something would interfere with their beer drinking and sports watching. Not to mention the fact that they are winded just going from the couch to the fridge.

Hey Mark, you should learn about the Nazis before you talk about them. If any German police officer would have done what these agents, including Melson and Holder, have done, they would have been shot.

Do I think these people should be shot? Not without a trial, no. I think they should be charged with murder at the least but preferably Treason.

As of 100 EST CBS news now has a post up on CleanupATF.org for info on this.

http://cleanupatf.org/forums/index.php?/topic/153-phoenix-division/

CBS News is working on a report to get at the truth of the assault rifle sales to suspected straw purchasers. We are in need of firsthand information from people who have it. Our deadline is ASAP. We have a lot of information that's been circulating, but we need to talk to sources directly. You do NOT have to appear on television or be quoted on TV by name (although it would be extremely helpful to have those types of sources too). We can just start with a phone conversation. We are very experienced in dealing with whistleblowers and covert sources. Please contact soonest and pass along our contact info if you know others who might be willing to talk to us: 202-457-4306 Sharyl Attkisson sac@cbsnews.com

For Anonymous at 8:28 AM:You might want to realize that the fine German police under the Nazis were more than glad to shoot ANYONE they were told to by the Nazis. Just like here. Think of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry as a Jew. Think of Newell and Melson and Holder as True Nazis. THEN take a look at your statement. I stand by mine.

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Everyone should grow up with simulated equipment from a heavy weapons platoon. It gives you a more well rounded education and an appreciation for the finer things in life. -- Sergeant Matthew Vanderboegh, United States Army.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.